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fix(decorators): async get hits record serializer/size/hit like the sync path (LAB-3765) - #297

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Summary

This PR fixes async cache hit statistics recording to match the sync path behavior (LAB-3765).

Problem

The async cache wrapper's two cache-hit recording sites were logging get operations without the serializer, size_bytes, and hit labels that the sync path includes. As a result, on hit-heavy async workloads, most get traffic was incorrectly filed under serializer="unknown" in the collected statistics.

Changes

src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py

  • L1 memory hit site: Added serializer="l1_memory", size_bytes=len(l1_bytes), and hit=True to the record_cache_operation call.
  • L2 (rust) hit site: Added serializer="rust", size_bytes (from the served payload), and hit=True to the record_cache_operation call, along with a comment clarifying that L1 and L2 hits on the same entry report identical sizes.

tests/unit/test_async_get_record_labels.py (new)

  • Adds a test verifying both async cache tiers (L1 and L2) record hits with the same labels the sync path produces.
  • Exercises the real decorator stack: an initial miss primes L2 (and L1 via backfill); clearing L1 before the second call forces the request to reach the L2 hit site.
  • Asserts that each hit records exactly one get operation with the correct serializer label, hit=True, and a non-zero size_bytes.

Impact

Async cache hits now emit consistent, properly labeled statistics matching the sync path, eliminating the misattribution of hit traffic to serializer="unknown".


Summary

This PR fixes a stats-recording inconsistency in the async cache decorator's L2 hit path, bringing it in line with the sync path behavior (LAB-3765).

Problem

When recording cache statistics for an L2 hit in the async wrapper, the size_bytes value was computed as len(cached_data) if cached_data else 0. This conditional guard could report a size of 0 for cache hits, diverging from how the L1 hit site records the served payload size.

Change

  • src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py: Simplified the size_bytes calculation for the async L2 hit path from len(cached_data) if cached_data else 0 to len(cached_data). Since the code reaches this point on a confirmed hit with a valid envelope in hand, the served size is always reported directly—matching the L1 hit site which uses len(l1_bytes). The comments were updated to clarify that the async L2 site has the raw envelope available (unlike the sync L2 site, which estimates from str(value)).

  • tests/unit/test_async_get_record_labels.py: Updated the module and fixture docstrings to more accurately describe the parity being tested and the reasoning behind L1 hygiene between test cases. The redundant clear_all() call at fixture setup was removed, and the docstring now notes that tests/unit/conftest.py's no-op override of the root Redis isolation fixture necessitates the explicit L1 cleanup to prevent a leaked entry from turning the L2 case's priming miss into an L1 hit.

Impact

Async cache hits now consistently record serializer, size_bytes, and hit labels the same way as the sync path, so hit-heavy async workloads no longer misfile get traffic under serializer="unknown" or report a size of zero.


Fix: Align async cache get metrics with the sync path (LAB-3765)

Summary

This PR updates a code comment in the async cache get path within src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py to accurately reflect the current behavior when recording cache operation statistics.

Changes

  • Simplified the inline comment explaining the size_bytes calculation for the async L2 cache get operation. The previous comment referenced a discrepancy where the sync L2 path lacked an envelope and estimated size from str(value) instead. That caveat has been removed, indicating the async path now records size_bytes from the raw envelope consistently with the L1 site's len(l1_bytes).

Context

Based on the PR title, this change is part of ensuring the async cache get path records serializer, size, and hit statistics consistently with the sync path. The comment update documents that the async get operation now aligns its size measurement with the standard envelope-based approach.


Based on the code changes, here's a description for this pull request:

Description

This PR fixes the async get code path so it records the same telemetry metadata (serializer, size_bytes, and hit) that the synchronous path already records for cache hits.

What Changed

The test test_async_get_record_labels.py was strengthened to verify that the async hit sites report the exact served size rather than just a positive value:

  • Before: The test only asserted size_bytes > 0, which would pass even if the code recorded an incorrect constant (e.g., size_bytes=1).
  • After: The test now pins size_bytes to the exact length of the serialized envelope stored in the backend (expected_size = len(next(iter(backend.store.values())))).

Why

The tightened assertion catches a real correctness issue: async cache hits must record the true serialized byte size, not an arbitrary placeholder. Since the L1 backfill stores the same bytes that L2 returned, the single stored value serves as the ground truth for either tier. This ensures the async path emits consistent, accurate telemetry labels matching the sync path's behavior.

Impact

  • Ensures async and sync get operations produce consistent metrics/telemetry for cache hits.
  • Prevents regressions where async hits could report inaccurate size metadata.

Note: This description is based solely on the test file changes shown. The corresponding decorator/source changes that implement the fix (referenced in the PR title) are not included in the provided diff.


Description

This PR fixes a discrepancy in how the async cache get path records statistics for L2 cache hits, aligning it with the behavior of the synchronous path.

Problem

When recording cache operation statistics for an async L2 hit, the size_bytes metric was calculated using len(cached_data) directly. When cached_data was a string envelope, this measured the character count rather than the actual byte length. For non-ASCII payloads, this produced incorrect size measurements that didn't match what was actually stored.

Fix

The change now UTF-8 encodes the envelope when it's a string before measuring its length:

  • If cached_data is a str, it is encoded to UTF-8 bytes first.
  • The size_bytes metric now reflects the encoded byte length, consistent with:
    • The bytes stored by _l1_backfill_from_l2
    • The L1 site's len(l1_bytes) measurement

Impact

Cache statistics for async L2 hits now report accurate byte sizes for all payloads, including those containing non-ASCII characters, ensuring consistency between the async and sync code paths.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved asynchronous cache-hit reporting with accurate hit status and payload size details.
    • Added serialiser information to second-level cache metrics for clearer diagnostics.
    • Ensured reported payload sizes reflect the complete cached response.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming consistent labels and metadata for first- and second-level asynchronous cache hits, including operation, serialiser, hit status and served payload size.

…ync path (LAB-3765)

The async wrapper's L1-hit and L2-hit record_cache_operation calls omitted
serializer, size_bytes and hit, so FeatureOrchestrator's serializer="unknown"
default swallowed every async get hit. The sync path labels the same tiers
l1_memory / rust with the served size and hit=True. Pass the same kwargs at
both async sites; size_bytes for the L2 hit is the raw envelope the async
handler already returns, so L1 and L2 hits on one entry report the same size.

Test drives both tiers through the real decorator stack and captures at the
orchestrator, not the collector, because record_success() also forwards an
unlabelled record at these sites.
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Async L1 and L2 cache-hit records now include explicit hit status, serializer labels, and payload sizes. Tests verify these records for both cache tiers.

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Async cache-hit metrics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cache-hit recording
src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py
Async L1 records include the serialised entry size and hit=True. Async L2 records use the rust serializer, report the raw cached envelope length, and set hit=True.
Cache-hit validation
tests/unit/test_async_get_record_labels.py
Tests use an in-memory byte backend and verify the get operation, serializer, hit status, and exact payload size for L1 and forced-L2 hits.

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Async cache-hit metrics now report accurate byte sizes and labels for both L1 and L2 hits.

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The sync L2 site measures the served envelope as of #298; this comment described the state it was written against and would read as a lie once both land. The remaining sentence is about this site only.
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The previous commit claimed the async hit sites already record the served envelope length. On this base they do not; #297 brings them there. Docstring, wrapper comment and test docstring now state the fact that holds today: the same quantity the sync L1 site records via len(l1_bytes).

The hit site unpacks the tuple by name, mirroring the async site, instead of reading [1] and [2]. The test runs with l1_enabled=False so the L2 site is reached without an L1 singleton to prime and clear, and the one-use fixture is inlined with its rationale kept as a comment.

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Measure string envelopes in bytes.

When the async L2 handler returns a str, it encodes the value as UTF-8 before deserialisation and _l1_backfill_from_l2 stores the encoded bytes. However, len(cached_data) counts Unicode characters at this metric site. Non-ASCII envelopes therefore produce an under-reported size_bytes value. Encode string values as UTF-8 before measuring the envelope.

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The async L2 hit-record metric measured size_bytes with len(cached_data), which
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Conflict: src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py, the async L2-hit stats site.
Both sides added serializer="rust" / size_bytes / hit=True there; the PR
read size_bytes from the four-slot hit tuple, main (#297, LAB-3765)
measured the UTF-8-encoded envelope locally. Kept main's expression: the
values are identical for every in-contract bytes envelope, and for an
out-of-contract str envelope main's is the byte count both sides intend.
The PR's four-slot tuple stays in force at the sync site and on the mmap
path; the async unpack target is renamed _size_bytes to match the PR's
two double-check sites.

Follow-through from main's #264 (LAB-304): the PR's new L1-backfill
warning used bounded_error, which main removed from the wrapper's imports
and forbids at log sinks (tests/unit/test_log_redaction_architecture.py);
it now uses redact_error_for_log like every other sink in the file.
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#294 (LAB-348) widened the L2 hit tuple to (found, value, envelope, size_bytes) at the same three async sites this branch touches, so both double-check hit returns conflicted.

Resolution keeps main's 4-tuple unpack and this branch's telemetry call, and drops the helper's "return the encoded envelope" contract: _l1_backfill_from_l2 now encodes internally and guards TypeError itself (#294), so the saved re-encode had no caller left and the return value changed shape with collect_stats for nothing.

size_bytes stays derived from the envelope rather than taken from the tuple's new slot: the handler reports len() of whatever the backend returned, which is a character count for a str envelope, and #297 made this label byte-denominated deliberately. Swapping the source inside a merge would be an unreviewed behaviour change.
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… (LAB-3769) (#303)

> **Maintainer note — this PR also carries a dependency fix.** `anyio`
was
> constrained to `>=4.14.2` here rather than in a separate PR, at the
> maintainer's request, because it was the only thing keeping this
branch red.

### Dependency: `anyio >= 4.14.2` and `h2 >= 4.4.1`

`anyio 4.11.0` carries
[GHSA-82r6-8w77-94w6](GHSA-82r6-8w77-94w6)
/ CVE-2026-63374 (IDNA-2003 hostname encoding lets a hijacked connection
to an
internationalised domain pass TLS certificate validation — CVSS 9.3),

[GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp](GHSA-5p39-cfhj-2xmp)
/
CVE-2026-64847 (undrained process-pool stderr pipe deadlocks the
worker), and

[GHSA-3w57-8xmc-8v26](GHSA-3w57-8xmc-8v26)
/
CVE-2026-63349. All three are fixed in `4.14.2`.

**The first attempt at this fix did not work, and is worth calling
out.** The floor
was added to `[tool.uv] constraint-dependencies`, matching the entries
already in
that block. That table is uv-local — it constrains this repository's
lockfile and is
never emitted as `Requires-Dist`, so `pip install cachekit` ignored it
completely.
Verified against the built wheel: `METADATA` listed nine `Requires-Dist`
entries and
neither `anyio` nor `h2` was among them. CI passed regardless, because
both audit
gates run `pip-audit` against the already-constrained venv — a green
board was false
assurance, not evidence.

Both floors now live in `[project] dependencies`, where they are emitted
as
`Requires-Dist` and actually bind a downstream install. The wheel built
from this
branch ships `Requires-Dist: anyio>=4.14.2` and `Requires-Dist:
h2>=4.4.1`.

Two related corrections:

- `h2 >= 4.4.1`
([GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg](GHSA-6hr6-w5qg-qmwg),
a request-smuggling primitive) had the identical problem — it is where
the `anyio`
  entry was copied from — so it moves too.
- Both rationale comments claimed the dependency "reaches users through
the
`cachekit[http2]` extra". There is no such extra (they are `data`,
`json`,
`memcached`); `httpx[http2]` is an unconditional runtime dependency, so
exposure is
  every install, not an opt-in subset. Corrected at both entries.

The constraint table now holds only genuinely dev-only transitives and
documents why,
so the next floor does not repeat this. Re-resolving also drops
`sniffio` (vendored
into `anyio` from 4.14) and moves `typing-extensions` to `4.16.0`;
nothing in `src/`
or `tests/` imports `sniffio`, and both remaining importers guard with
`except
ImportError`. `pip-audit` reports no known vulnerabilities.

### Merged `main` — conflict resolution

`main` picked up #294, which widened the L2 hit tuple to
`(found, value, envelope, size_bytes)` at the same three async sites
this
branch touches, so both double-check hit returns conflicted. Two
decisions
worth a reviewer's eye:

- **`size_bytes` is still derived from the envelope, not read from the
tuple's
new slot.** The handler reports `len()` of whatever the backend
returned,
which is a *character* count for a `str` envelope; #297 made this label
byte-denominated on purpose. Changing the source inside a merge would be
an
  unreviewed behaviour change, so the `.encode("utf-8")` stays.
- **`_record_l2_hit_async` returns nothing, and is best-effort.** #294
moved envelope
encoding inside `_l1_backfill_from_l2`, and both async readers annotate
that slot
`bytes`, so the re-encode the return value saved never fired — while the
return
*type* varied with `collect_stats`. It is gone. The helper body is now
wrapped the
same way `_l1_backfill_from_l2` is: every call site sits inside an
`except
Exception` that falls through to a recompute, so a throwing metrics
collector could
convert a hit already in hand into a full recompute during exactly the
stampede the
  lock exists to absorb. Telemetry never costs a served hit.

Both double-check branches were re-verified by mutation after the merge:
deleting the record call from either one fails that parametrised case
alone.

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## Summary

This PR fixes a telemetry gap where async L2 cache hits arriving through
the distributed lock's double-check path were not recorded, making
thundering-herd hits invisible to `cache_operations_total` and
`cache_info()` L2 statistics (LAB-3769).

## Problem

The uncontended async L2 hit path correctly recorded
`get`/`serializer="rust"`/`hit=True` telemetry (from LAB-3765), but the
two post-lock `_l2_double_check` hit returns did not. This meant that
when another worker filled the cache while this request waited on the
distributed lock — precisely the traffic the lock exists to absorb — the
resulting hit was never counted in operation totals or L2 stats.

## Changes

- **Extracted a shared `_record_l2_hit_async` helper** in `wrapper.py`
that consolidates the L2 hit telemetry logic (operation context, success
recording, `record_cache_operation`, and `record_l2_hit`). It returns
the UTF-8-encoded envelope so callers can pass it directly to
`_l1_backfill_from_l2` without re-encoding.

- **Refactored the uncontended L2 hit site** to use the new helper,
replacing the inline telemetry recording.

- **Added telemetry recording to both double-check hit paths** inside
the lock. Each now measures the double-check read duration and calls
`_record_l2_hit_async` before backfilling L1 and returning, ensuring
contended hits report the same labels as uncontended ones.

## Testing

- Added `tests/unit/test_async_l2_double_check_hit_labels.py`, which
reproduces contention by patching the backend's `get` to miss once
(forcing the wrapper into the lock path) then hit on the double-check
read. It verifies exactly one `get` operation is recorded with
`serializer="rust"`, `hit=True`, and the correct byte size.

---

## Summary

This PR fixes a telemetry gap in the async cache decorator's
double-check lock path, ensuring L2 cache hits discovered during
double-check reads properly record `get` telemetry.

## Problem

When an async cached function experiences cache contention, the wrapper
falls through the pre-lock check into the lock path. A double-check read
then occurs (standing in for "another request filled the cache while we
waited"). This double-check hit can be reached through two distinct
control-flow branches:

1. **Lock-acquired branch** — the lock was successfully obtained
2. **Lock-timeout branch** — the lock acquisition timed out

Both branches record telemetry via the same `_record_l2_hit_async`
helper, but the test coverage previously only exercised the
lock-acquired case (the mock lock was always granted).

## Changes

- **Parametrized the test** over both lock outcomes (`lock-acquired` and
`lock-timeout`) so both double-check hit return paths are covered.
- **Updated `_LockableByteStore`** to accept a `lock_acquired` flag,
allowing the mock to yield either `True` or `False` from `acquire_lock`,
thereby steering the test through the desired control-flow branch.
- **Added duration assertions** verifying that `duration_ms` is recorded
as a non-negative float. This guards against a regression where the
double-check read's timing window could be dropped — a bug that would
otherwise still pass the existing label-only assertions.

## Impact

Ensures consistent, complete telemetry (including timing) for L2 cache
hits regardless of which lock outcome path the async wrapper takes
during contention.

---

## Summary

This PR fixes telemetry recording for async L2 cache hits that arrive
via the lock's double-check path, and standardizes the `size_bytes`
telemetry label to be consistently byte-denominated across all cache hit
sites (LAB-3769).

## Changes

### Async L2 hit telemetry (LAB-3769)
- Refactored `_record_l2_hit_async` to no longer return an envelope,
decoupling telemetry recording from envelope encoding. Both post-lock
double-check hit sites now record `get` telemetry consistently, ensuring
thundering-herd hits served via the lock's double-check are no longer
invisible to `cache_operations_total` / `cache_info()`.

### Consistent byte-denominated `size_bytes`
- The `size_bytes` label is now derived from the encoded envelope rather
than the handler's raw `len()` (which reports character count for `str`
envelopes). This keeps the metric byte-denominated across every hit
site, matching the bytes stored by L1 backfill.
- Handler cache-hit tuples were extended to carry an explicit
`size_bytes` slot: async now unpacks `(found, result, cached_data,
size_bytes)` and the sync path unpacks the same 4-tuple, replacing
ad-hoc `len(str(...).encode(...))` computations.

### Sync path L1 backfill (LAB-348 / LAB-557)
- Added L1 backfill from L2 envelopes on the sync hit path, honoring the
stale-exclusion and remaining-freshness bound invariants (previously
only done on the async path). The sync path now captures the freshness
value (`fresh_for`) from freshness-capable L2 reads to bound the L1
lifetime.

### Robustness of `_l1_backfill_from_l2` (LAB-348)
- Made L1 backfill best-effort by catching `TypeError` from
`L1Cache.put` (raised on a non-bytes envelope from an out-of-contract
backend), logging a warning and skipping rather than allowing the
exception to demote a served hit into a recompute. Other exceptions
still propagate as genuine L1 bugs. The function was also converted to
an early-return guard clause for clarity.

---

## Summary

This PR ensures that async L2 cache hits arriving through the lock's
double-check path correctly record `get` telemetry, addressing a gap
where thundering-herd hits could be invisible to
`cache_operations_total` / `cache_info()`.

## Changes

**Telemetry recording for double-check L2 hits (LAB-3769)**

The `_record_l2_hit_async` helper is now consistently used across all
three L2 hit sites in the async wrapper:
- The uncontended read path
- Both post-lock double-check hit paths (where another request filled
the cache while the current request waited on the lock)

Previously the double-check hit paths already called
`_record_l2_hit_async`, but this change refactors the helper to return
the computed envelope so callers can reuse it.

**Avoiding duplicate UTF-8 encoding**

`_record_l2_hit_async` now returns the UTF-8-encoded envelope when
`collect_stats` computed one (otherwise it returns the original
`cached_data` unchanged). Callers capture this return value and pass it
directly to `_l1_backfill_from_l2`, avoiding encoding the same string
payload twice per hit.

The updated docstring clarifies that:
- `size_bytes` is derived from the envelope (byte-denominated), not from
the handler's `size_bytes` slot which reports a character count for
string envelopes (LAB-348, LAB-3765).
- Since `_l1_backfill_from_l2` encodes defensively itself, passing the
original payload back would still be correct — the reuse is purely an
efficiency improvement.

## Impact

- Async L2 double-check cache hits are now properly reflected in cache
operation telemetry and stats.
- Reduces redundant UTF-8 encoding work on the hit path when statistics
collection is enabled.

---

## Summary

This PR fixes telemetry error handling in the async lock double-check
path when recording L2 cache hits.

## Problem

In `_record_l2_hit_async`, telemetry was previously wrapped in a broad
`except Exception` that logged at WARNING level. However, any
*unexpected* error not caught here would propagate to the caller's
`except Exception` block, which logs at DEBUG under "Double-check cache
failed after lock acquisition" and then **recomputes the value**. This
meant a buggy telemetry collector could silently turn a cache hit — the
very hit the lock exists to protect — into a full recompute under
contention, once per contender.

## Changes

**`src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py`**
- Split the single `except Exception` handler into two distinct clauses:
- `except (ValueError, TypeError)`: the collector's documented/expected
refusals (e.g., duplicated timeseries, mismatched label sets,
non-numeric observations), logged at WARNING as before.
- `except Exception`: unexpected errors indicating a bug in the
telemetry stack, now logged at ERROR with the exception type named —
making the failure loud rather than allowing the caller to demote the
hit into a recompute.
- Added explanatory comments documenting why the unexpected case is
deliberately caught (to prevent misattributed DEBUG logging and
per-contender recomputes) rather than narrowly scoped.

**`tests/unit/test_async_l2_double_check_hit_labels.py`**
- Added a parametrized test verifying that a throwing metrics collector
never costs the served hit. It covers both handler clauses — a collector
refusal (`ValueError`) and an unexpected bug (`AttributeError`) —
asserting the hit is still served from the double-check read and the
function body is not executed a second time.

## Impact

Telemetry failures — expected or unexpected — no longer cause cache hits
under lock contention to be demoted into recomputes, preserving the
stampede-protection guarantee the lock provides.

---

## Summary

This PR fixes a telemetry bug in the async cache decorator where L2
cache hits served from the double-check read path could fail to be
recorded in local statistics when an external telemetry collector
rejected the operation.

## Problem

In the `_record_l2_hit_async` helper, the local stat recording
(`_stats.record_l2_hit()`) was placed **after** calls to the external
telemetry collector. If the collector raised one of its documented
refusals (e.g., duplicated timeseries, mismatched label set, non-numeric
observation), the exception would prevent the local L2 hit counter from
being updated—even though the cache hit had already been served to the
caller.

This resulted in served hits going missing from `cache_info().l2_hits`
and skewing the average L2 latency, effectively hiding hits that were
actually delivered.

## Fix

The local stat recording is now performed **first**, before any
interaction with the external collector. Since recording the local stat
is pure arithmetic under a lock and cannot realistically fail, this
ordering guarantees that a served hit is always counted locally,
regardless of whether the external collector refuses the operation.

## Test Changes

The test in `test_async_l2_double_check_hit_labels.py` was updated to
verify the fix:
- It now captures the `l2_hits` count before the operation and asserts
the delta rather than an absolute value (since counters are keyed by
module/qualname and shared across parametrized runs).
- It adds an assertion that `cache_info().l2_hits` is still incremented
by 1 even when the external collector (`record_cache_operation`) raises
an exception, confirming that a collector refusal no longer costs the
local L2 stat.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved cache hit tracking for asynchronous operations, including
requests completed after lock contention.
* Cache operation metrics now consistently include payload size and
response timing information.
* Telemetry errors no longer trigger unnecessary recomputation of cached
results.
* **Tests**
* Added coverage for asynchronous cache hits following both successful
lock acquisition and lock timeouts.
* **Chores**
* Updated required runtime components to address transitive security
vulnerabilities.
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Co-authored-by: Mark S <ray@insighttimer.com>
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